Derrida Quote by Jacques Derrida

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and…

— William Wordsworth

It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.

— Thomas Carlyle

Poetry takes on meaning when it becomes one metaphor.

— Jeremy Limn

Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all…

— Steven Saylor

“Many of the poets writing today are hung up on language and symbolism. If the poem does not have depth of meaning or fit…

— Harley King

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him…

— Paul Valery

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

— Samuel Beckett

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.

— Henry David Thoreau

A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

— Victor Hugo

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

— W. H. Auden